Sheep Breeders Association General Assembly

The Last few weeks Luli (my counterpart) and I have spent preparing for our annual General Assembly for Western Regional Sheep Breeders Association. We have been visiting all the local associations and telling them about what will happen at the meeting, as well as preparing them for the upcoming election for the office of the president, the management board and supervisory board.

The meeting was originally scheduled to take place January 27 but because of a huge snowstorm we had to postpone for a week. We had the meeting on February 3 and we had representatives from all the local associations except from Kruševo, they were too deep in snow to dig out.

The meeting went well; a new president and management board was elected. Now we will begin work for year and things are going to get pretty busy. The biggest task I with which I will be involved is applying for funds and organizing a cheese and wine festival in the big tourist town, Ohrid. We (the association) will handle all of the cheese presenters and vendors and we will invite a variety of local purveyors of wine. I am really excited about this because I really like working with the people at the organization who are going to fund the festival and I will be gaining some awesome experience working with a usaid contracting organization.


Pictured here is Luli (far right) who was translating from Albanian to Macedonian and Qamil, the president from 2002-2004. To the left of Qamil is Murat, Mexhet and Djuro, all memebers of the management board.